29 July 2010
Starcross Primary School is set to get a summer makeover thanks to volunteers from EDF Energy.
Ten volunteers from the company’s Supply and Contract Administration Department at Gadeon House in Exeter will spend Wednesday (Aug 4) helping to paint the playground, trim hedges and sort out plant beds around the south Devon school near Dawlish.
Their efforts are all part of the energy company’s Helping Hands volunteering scheme. The scheme allows all staff at least two days of company time a year to support local community and environmental projects. Hundreds of schools, community and environmental projects have benefited in recent years.
Organiser Michelle Stuckey is contract management support team manager at EDF Energy’s Gadeon House office on Exeter Business Park.
She said: “It was important for us as a group of teams to support a local school as they play such a vital role in their local community. We’re very pleased that we can help Starcross Primary School.”
Volunteer Jade Farrell, an agent manager supervisor at EDF Energy in Exeter, said: “We’re all really looking forward to it. Not only will it be a chance to get out and help in the local community but it’s also an opportunity for teams to work together in a fun way.”
The volunteers will be on site from 9am to about 3pm.
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For more information and to arrange for a photographer to attend on the day, please call Dan Pritchard in the EDF Energy press office on 01392 813783.
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About EDF Energy
EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies, producing around one-fifth of the nation's electricity from its nuclear, coal and gas power stations, as well as combined heat and power plants and wind farms. The company provides power to a quarter of the Britain’s population via its electricity distribution networks and supplies gas and electricity to more than 5.5 million business and residential customer product accounts.
EDF Energy’s safe and secure operation of its eight existing nuclear power stations at sites across the country makes it the UK’s largest generator of low carbon electricity. EDF Energy is also leading the UK's nuclear renaissance and has published plans to build four new nuclear reactors, subject to the right investment framework. These new plants could generate enough low carbon electricity for about 40% of Britain’s homes. They would make an important contribution to the UK’s future needs for clean, secure and affordable energy. The project is already creating business and job opportunities for British companies and workers.
Through Our Sustainability Commitments, EDF Energy has launched one of the biggest environmental and social programmes of any British energy company. EDF is the official energy utilities partner and sustainability partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company is also helping its customers and others use energy more sustainably through products and initiatives such as Team Green Britain.
EDF Energy is part of EDF Group, one of Europe’s largest power companies. Following the integration with British Energy in 2009, the company employs around 20,000 people at locations across the UK.